Trump Bump Up; Crime Fraud Exception; Princeton

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week: Asha and Renato discuss Alvin Bragg’s possible legal theory for a Trump indictment - the bump up; Jack Smith piercing attorney-client privilege based on the crime-fraud exception; plus Princeton wins and someone is sneaking into Asha’s Zoom. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Subscribe to our podcast https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	M-S-S-W media.
0:08.6	So, Asha, what's Alvin Bragg's legal theory for charging Trump in the Hushmoney case?
0:15.0	Eh, it's complicated.
0:18.0	I'm Asheringapha.
0:22.0	I teach national security law at Yale University. I'm a former
0:26.5	FBI special agent and a legal and national security analyst.
0:31.2	And I'm Renata Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst.
0:38.0	And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down to a soundbite or a tweet.
0:44.0	Okay.
0:45.0	Where do we start?
0:50.0	So I think today, let's, you know're we're basically just in speculative mode now
0:55.6	we're anticipating a grand jury indictment from the Manhattan DA's office.
1:03.6	We're pretty sure that it relates to the
1:08.0	hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels by Michael Cohen back in 2016, and we know that because she's
1:18.1	testified in front of the grand jury, and he's testified for the grand jury.
1:21.3	But I think that there is some question on what the legal theory is going to be.
1:25.8	In other words, how is, how would it brag design these charges in a way to both be something that he can prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury and will hold up against legal challenges and also reflect something that is a crime that people would be charged with as opposed to some kind of, you know,
1:56.7	Frankenstein type of, they've called this a zombie prosecution, like a Frankenstein
2:01.6	prosecution of something that you know no one's ever seen before is that fair?
2:06.3	Yeah, I think so I think you want of what you want as a prosecutor is always to charge a case that is in line with your
2:17.2	prosecutions in other cases and if you're deviating from that if you're
2:21.0	prosecuting something totally new or different.
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